October 29, 2021 —
~samm
Hey all,
Welcome to my first blog in a while.
Now I bought a VR headset, it’s the Oculus Quest 2.
Even though it’s an older device it’s still really impressive!
I wanted to buy a VR headset for a long time now but I finally got one! I could’ve bought an HTC Five, Index, etc but it’s too expensive and it does the same that I want the Quest 2 to do.
Back to the subject.
I have the Quest 2 for about half a month right now and I absolutely love it!
The fact that I can take it to someone's house, play some games and take it back all without wires for just 350,--€ now I know this is a lot but in comparison for 1 079,--€ and roughly the same for a HTC Five kit, it’s almost nothing! Well… not nothing but you get my point.
Performance
With all these positives it sounds too good to be true.
As I never used any other VR headsets I cannot tell how good the performance is compared to other headsets.
In stand-alone games it looks like you are playing the game on, what, like medium settings.
Depends on the game but it is really awesome as I still get about 60FPS or 120FPS.
Quality
Well now you heard the performance software-wise let's move to the hardware!
Now as you might now, lenses are an important part of VR.
The lenses of the Quest 2 are, well... decent. As I wear glasses the FoV is shit and without my glasses on I can't see anything clearly in VR.
Even though there are prescription lenses for VR its just too expensive for me at this moment. So I can't really say anything about the sharpness of the display.
Now the screens are really great! With a single-panel, fast-switching, RGB-stripe LCD with a resolution of 1832x1920 pixels per eye. That totals a nearly 4K resolution when combined.
There's programs you can install to use your Quest 2 as a monitor with little to no delay! (Yes, it works on Linux…)
The build quality is decent, no issues with that so far.
In short
Great displays, awesome software that works perfectly with Steam VR and other Steam games. I played Half-life: Alyx, Boneworks, beatsaber, Onward and Hard Bullet.
I really enjoyed Alyx and Onward the most.
So if you're planning on buying your first VR headset I'd recommend the Oculus Quest 2!
Bear in mind that it is made by Facebook and that privacy is questionable.
Notes:
My PC specs are
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
NvIdia driver version 457.51
Intel® Core i7-10700 @ 2.40 GHz
16Gb RAM in dual channel
Tags: VR, Headset, Game, Gaming, Quest, Facebook